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December 2016 Archive
421.
Criminals can guess Visa number and security code in six seconds, experts find (independent.co.uk)
218 points by seycombi on Dec 4, 2016 | 154 comments
422.
Uber's predatory pricing is undermining public transit and density (humantransit.org)
217 points by erispoe on Dec 16, 2016 | 229 comments
423.
Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit (sciencebulletin.org)
217 points by devinp on Dec 8, 2016 | 39 comments
424.
A Crash Course in X86 Assembly for Reverse Engineers (2013) [pdf] (sensepost.com)
217 points by ingve on Dec 3, 2016 | 31 comments
425.
Tips for Self-Learning Programming (blog.hiphipjorge.com)
216 points by hiphipjorge on Dec 10, 2016 | 53 comments
426.
A homemade receiver for GPS and GLONASS satellites (lea.hamradio.si)
215 points by brian-armstrong on Dec 23, 2016 | 48 comments
427.
Thought Experiments to De-Risk Your Startup (codingvc.com)
215 points by lpolovets on Dec 15, 2016 | 32 comments
428.
The Signal protocol for Node and browsers (people.ischool.berkeley.edu)
215 points by ifelsehow on Dec 15, 2016 | 29 comments
429.
Apple’s rotten appeal (politico.eu)
214 points by mpweiher on Dec 21, 2016 | 203 comments
430.
The .zip file specification is flawed (github.com)
214 points by AndyKelley on Dec 12, 2016 | 118 comments
431.
House Judiciary Committee Encryption Working Group Year-End Report [pdf] (judiciary.house.gov)
214 points by BuuQu9hu on Dec 25, 2016 | 71 comments
432.
The FBI Can Now Legally Hack Everywhere Around the World (saintlad.com)
214 points by jakekovoor on Dec 4, 2016 | 0 comments
433.
The New Intel: How Nvidia Went from Powering Video Games to Revolutionizing AI (forbes.com)
213 points by sonabinu on Dec 11, 2016 | 123 comments
434.
Why I wrote a book about interpreters (thorstenball.com)
213 points by deanmen on Dec 1, 2016 | 69 comments
435.
Pregnancy alters woman's brain 'for at least two years' (bbc.com)
212 points by richardboegli on Dec 20, 2016 | 123 comments
436.
NSA Watchdog Removed for Whistleblower Retaliation (pogo.org)
212 points by rosser on Dec 16, 2016 | 46 comments
437.
Announcing OSS-Fuzz: Continuous Fuzzing for Open Source Software (testing.googleblog.com)
212 points by tanin on Dec 1, 2016 | 43 comments
438.
Elon Musk, Travis Kalanick, Indra Nooyi to Join Presidential Advisory Council (reuters.com)
210 points by randomname2 on Dec 14, 2016 | 173 comments
439.
Researchers create gel that regrows tooth enamel (2015) (dentistryiq.com)
210 points by mad_dev on Dec 28, 2016 | 85 comments
440.
A fast multi-producer, multi-consumer lock-free concurrent queue for C++11 (github.com)
210 points by setra on Dec 5, 2016 | 81 comments
441.
Predictive Learning [pdf] (drive.google.com)
210 points by aaronyy on Dec 7, 2016 | 38 comments
442.
Function multi-versioning in GCC 6 (lwn.net)
210 points by arthur2e5 on Dec 11, 2016 | 15 comments
443.
The widowhood effect: What it’s like to lose a spouse in your 30s (theglobeandmail.com)
209 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 25, 2016 | 40 comments
444.
The Hardware Hacker: Bunnie Huang's Tour-De-force (boingboing.net)
209 points by DemiGuru on Dec 30, 2016 | 40 comments
445.
Linux on the Mac – state of the union (lwn.net)
208 points by ah- on Dec 12, 2016 | 138 comments
446.
Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time (news.stanford.edu)
208 points by qwename on Dec 6, 2016 | 96 comments
447.
Darktable 2.2.0 released (darktable.org)
208 points by geppetto on Dec 27, 2016 | 82 comments
448.
32-bit homebrew CPU using 74' series logic (hackaday.io)
208 points by peter_d_sherman on Dec 19, 2016 | 78 comments
449.
Linux 4.9 is out (lwn.net)
208 points by sply on Dec 11, 2016 | 44 comments
450.
OpenLava under IBM attack (groups.google.com)
208 points by BuuQu9hu on Dec 19, 2016 | 42 comments